Is The AOL Fanhouse Ruining Reading Blogs?

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Is The AOL Fanhouse Ruining Reading Blogs?
Rickhouse Rickhouse posted 7/11/2007 from stopmikelupica.com [flag]
If you are a fan of Free Darko, or have ever enjoyed reading it, trying to decipher what the f*ck Shoals is saying with his $100 words, or even just like looking at cool ass pictures, go check out today's post from Shoals. He's pulling an NPR pledge drive to raise some money to keep him and company writing FD. [link]

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  • chimprage chimprage
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    Well thought out piece, you bring up a lot of valid points.  I'd love to hear the flip side's discussion points
    Posted 7/11/2007 [reply] [flag]
  • McLovin McLovin
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    As opposed to the Deadspin rant which was completly idiotic, this one actually makes sense. Nice post.
    Posted 7/12/2007 [reply] [flag]
  • theoriginaljd theoriginaljd
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    This was very well thought out and I enjoyed the hell out of it. I agree with chimprage that I'd like to hear Jamie or MJD or Shoals talk about why this new system is beneficial (other then being able to afford a new gimp mask).

    Posted 7/12/2007 [reply] [flag]

Links (7)

Is The FanHouse Dragging Down Sports Blogs?
Published 7/12/2007 by Luke Halpert at Nyjer Please
... , he comes right back yesterday with a great piece on how he thinks the FanHouse seems to be ruining his favorite sports blogs. ...

IN BRIEF: Is The Fanhouse bad for sports blogging? ...
Published 7/13/2007 by Leitch at Deadspin
... Is The Fanhouse bad for sports blogging? [Stop Mike Lupica] ...

Link n' Blogs 7/16/07
Published 7/16/2007 by Jon Pyle at Epic Carnival - Pop Culture, Sports, Celebrities, Babes, Rumors, Innuendo
... ? An interesting take on baseball's struggles. And by the way, Oakley Bladez definitely enhance your performance... if you're trying to be awesome. (Cobra Brigade) SML be controversial? Not a chance. He weighs in on FanHouse, starts another good commenter discussion and trashes our own Hank Worrell (Winning the Turnover Battle). I got your back, Hank. (Stop Mike Lupica) They deliver what they promise at Five Tool Tool: ...

A Response to Stop Mike Lupica's FanHouse Critique
Published 7/17/2007 by dcsportsguy at Mr. Irrelevant
...  and 'Is the AOL Fanhouse Ruining Reading Blogs?,' so perhaps he should consider a name change to Criticize Bigger Sites. That's no knock, as I love criticism in all forms and am flattered that SML turned an eye to my creation. ...

Jamie Mottram Responds to AOL Criticism Kenny Mayne Writes Book
Published 7/18/2007 at SPORTSbyBROOKS
... to STOP MIKE LUPICA's critique of AOL FANHOUSE : • THE GHOSTS OF WAYNE FONTES gets out of committee and gives ...

Other Reading Options
Published 7/18/2007 by Kevin at BfloBlog.com
... Now back when I started blogging I wore an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. Also, there weren’t all these networks to just join in on. For an interesting debate on some of this, you may want to start here, where one blogger questions if AOL’s Fanhouse is hurting the sports blogosphere. I can only answer from a hockey blog perspective, but I really haven’t noticed a change in any of the hockey blogs that contribute to the FanHouse. A couple seem to be a little less active, but that could be from the time of year, and certainly all of them ask you to click through to AOL to read much of their material, but that’s not a big issue. Reading through, it seems to have had a bigger impact on basketball blogs, which really isn’t something I check out too often. ...

2007: The Year Sports Bloggers Grew Up, Grew Out, and Got Paid
Published 12/28/2007 by PostmanE at FanHouse
Filed under: Featured StoriesAccording to Ballhype, FanHouse - this rigid cluster of pixels right in front of you - publishes 469 posts a week. In 2007, then, FanHouse and its writers have given you almost 25,000 things to digest on every topic under the sports universe's great sun, from Tom Brady to Brian Vickers to Buzkashi. Think about every other sports site you read -- every other RSS feed -- and prepare to admit it: You took in a lot of sports blogging this year. Fortunately for you, this is 2007. And in 2007, sports blogs and their readers evolved. They got more discerning, leaner, meaner. Those thousands ...